Floor well in Weimar

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Floor well at the fork in Wagnergasse / Brühl

Bodebrunnen (also Brunnen am Brühl ) is the fountain as well as the name of the triangular space at the junction Brühl / Wagnergasse in front of Haus Brühl 7a in the Jakobsvorstadt area in Weimar . It takes its name after the regionally known writer Wilhelm Bode (1862–1922), who lived at Wagnergasse 17 and wrote about Goethe .

The ornamental fountain was built in 1856 at the time of Maria Pavlovna . The sandstone fountain bowl stands on a circular travertine base. The fluted ornamental column is crowned by a handle-less crater . The gargoyle on the base is a lion's head, which is not the only one at this fountain in Weimar . It was possibly built by the stone carver Adam Gleim from Berka . Hans-Joachim Leithner, however, assigns the authorship of this fountain to Carl Dornberger .

In 1945 the well was damaged by the effects of the war. It disappeared in 1950 and was only rebuilt according to old templates long after the fall of the Wall. Excavations carried out in 1996 determined the original location of the well. In the course of Weimar's preparations for European Capital of Culture 1999, funds were made available for the reconstruction of the fountain, which was unveiled in 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Stolzenau: frequent writer Wilhelm Bode died 90 years ago in Weimar . thueringer-allgemeine.de, October 20, 2012.
  2. ↑ http://docplayer.org/30470400-Der-sandstein-und-seine-bedeutung-fuer-unsere-stadt.html
  3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Leithner : Von Brunnenstuben, Röhrenfahrten und Wasserlinien, the historical and younger fountains in Weimar , published by Hans-Joachim Leithner in 2018, Gutenberg Druckerei Weimar (WeimarWissen, Der Weimarer Brunnenschatz), pp. 90-93. In a book published in 1990 about the Weimar fountains, it is not mentioned as a Bodebrunnen, but as a Brunnen am Brühl under the heading "Disappeared Fountains" and among those that were to be rebuilt as Brunnen am Brühl. -Paul Hemmann; Günther Golling; Gisela Hemmann: The fountains in Weimar: history and stories about the emergence, the partial decay and the restart of the running fountains. Weimar: Stadtmuseum Weimar, 1990. (Tradition and Present, Weimarer Schriften; 38), p. 36 and p. 80.
  4. ↑ The Weimar Lexicon from 1998 still describes the floor well as lost. Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 57.
  5. ↑ http://weimarer-brunnen.de/rundgang/

Web links

Commons : Bodebrunnen in Weimar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 2 "  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 51.3"  E